The great editions of the Hebrew Bible with rabbinical commentaries contained also commentaries of Ibn Ezra's on the following books of the Bible: Isaiah, Minor Prophets, Psalms, Job, Pentateuch, Daniel ; the commentaries on Proverbs, Ezra and Nehemiah which bear his name are really those of Moses Kimhi.

Although uncertain, it is widely thought that during the Bar Kokhba revolt, when a rabbinical assembly decided which books could be regarded as part of the Hebrew Bible, the Jewish apocrypha were left out.

Orthodox Jews maintain Halakha is derived from the divine law of the Torah ( Bible ), rabbinical laws, rabbinical decrees and customs combined.

The Bible displays a negative attitude to King Omri, and it has been followed by later rabbinical tradition.

His family had been distinguished for piety and exegetical skill in Talmud, but though he was known in the Jewish community by commentaries on certain books of the Bible, he never seems to have accepted any rabbinical post.

Along with Schechter and Bernard Drachman, professors at the Seminary at the time included: Louis Ginzberg, professor of Talmud ; Alexander Marx, professor of history and rabbinical literature and librarian ; Israel Friedländer, professor of Bible ; Joseph Mayor Asher, professor of homiletics ; and Joshua A. Joffe, instructor in Talmud.

Views on whether Hebrew Bible passages are Messianic may vary from and among scholars of ancient Israel looking at their meaning in original context and from and among rabbinical scholars.

Aquila was a man after Akiva's own heart ; under Akiva's guidance he gave the Greek-speaking Jews a rabbinical Bible ( Jerome on Isa.

Mention has already been made of the fact that Akiva was the creator of a rabbinical Bible version elaborated with the aid of his pupil, Aquila, and designed to become the common property of all Jews, thus Judaizing the Bible, as it were, in opposition to the Christians.

Classical rabbinical sources also allude to a war between the Canaanites and Judah's family ( not mentioned in the Hebrew Bible ), as a result of their destruction of Shechem in revenge for the rape of Dinah ; Judah features heavily as a protagonist in accounts of this war.

Evil-speaking is a sin regarded with intense aversion both in the Bible and in rabbinical literature.

In addition to the legal fast-days appointed by the Bible, Anan, by means of word-analogies instituted the following: The seventh day of every month ; the 14th and 15th of Adar instead of the rabbinical fast of the 13th, including thus the Purim festival ; also a seventy-days ' fast from the 13th of Nisan to the 23d of Siwan ; including Passover and Shavuot as times of fasting when neither food nor drink could be partaken of by day.

26 ); this is held to prohibit drugs and doctors. His opposition to the astronomical determination of the festivals, of which he boasted to the calif, led him to declare astronomy as a branch of the astrology and divination forbidden in the Bible, thus undermining the very foundation of the rabbinical calendar.

The term ' avot ' is not usually used as an honorary designation for ' rabbis ' or ' sages '; in rabbinical usage, it refers to the Patriarchs of the Bible.

The term occurs 15 times in the Hebrew Bible, another 7 times in the New Testament, and repeatedly in Second Temple period, rabbinical and patristic literature.

** Medieval Hebrew – Jews, liturgical, poetical, rabbinical, scientific, literary ; lingua franca based on Bible, Mishna and neologisms forms created by translators and commentators

Bread was a staple food, and as in the Bible, the meal is designated by the simple term " to eat bread ," so the rabbinical law ordains that the blessing pronounced upon bread covers everything else except wine and dessert.

He produced the editio princeps of the Mikraot Gedolot, the Rabbinic Bible, consisting of the Hebrew text plus rabbinical commentaries, between 1516 and 1517, and the first and oldest complete set of the Talmud, between 1520 and 1523, a well-preserved copy of which is contained in the Valmadonna Trust Library.

Though Moses ha-Darshan was considered a rabbinical authority, he owes his reputation principally to the fact that together with Tobiah ben Eliezer he was the most prominent representative of midrashic-symbolic Bible exegesis ( derash ) in the 11th century.

He continued to officiate at the Shaar Ha Shamayim synagogue, and could give long quotations from the Hebrew Bible and rabbinical texts from memory.

The group incorporates elements of African American culture into their interpretation of the Bible, and they do not recognize rabbinical Jewish interpretations such as the Talmud.

Due to religious restrictions on entering the most sacred areas of the Temple Mount ( see following section ), the Western Wall, a retaining wall for the Temple Mount and remnant of the Second Temple structure, is considered by some rabbinical authorities the holiest accessible site for Jews to pray.

Hirsch himself began in the following year a series of articles in which he took exception to some of Frankel's statements, especially to his definition of rabbinical tradition, which he found vague ; he further objected to Frankel's conception of the rabbinical controversies, which were, according to Frankel, improperly decided by certain devices common in parliamentary bodies.

Classical rabbinical sources believe the pot was of gold ; some say it was only there for the generation following Moses, and others that it survived at least until the time of Jeremiah.

# The skillful interpreter may make slight changes in a word, following the rabbinical rule, " Read not this way, but that way.

Spektor was the author of the following works, which are considered authoritative by rabbinical scholars:

Rather than following the biblical descriptions of the symptoms of tzaraath in the manner of modern doctors, classical rabbinical literature took an extremely literal view.

These innovations were rejected by the Orthodox majority of the city's Jews, and in the year following the opening of the synagogue a rabbinical assembly in Sátoraljaújhely excommunicated the rabbi of Miskolc.

He lived and died in Lublin, where he was the head of the yeshivah which produced the rabbinical celebrities of the following century.

To avoid confusion the more explanatory term korban khatta ' at " a sacrifice of sin " ( Hebrew: קרבן חטאת ‎ ) is found in rabbinical commentaries.

His writings demonstrate mastery of the Tanakh, the Talmud, and the rabbinical commentaries and codes of Jewish law.

The earliest statement in a secondary commentary explicitly interpreting this to mean that angelic beings mated with humans, can be traced to the rabbinical Targum Pseudo-Jonathan, and it has since become especially commonplace in modern-day Christian commentaries.

These laws are based upon the Books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy of the Torah and in the extensive body of rabbinical commentaries ( the Talmud ).

Mortalism is present in certain Second Temple Period pseudepigraphal works, later rabbinical works, and among medieval era rabbis such as Abraham Ibn Ezra ( 1092 – 1167 ), Maimonides ( 1135 – 1204 ), and Joseph Albo ( 1380 – 1444 ).

Since the latter had for many years been a personal opponent of Berab, and the two had had many disputes in regard to rabbinical decisions and approbations, Berab's ordination of Ibn Habib shows that he placed general above personal interests.

These writings influenced the rabbinical sage Abraham ibn Ezra, who quotes Yefet forty-two times in his commentary of the minor prophets.

In both biblical and rabbinical Hebrew, the word " abomination " is a familiar term for an idol, and therefore may well have the same application in Daniel, which should accordingly be rendered, in agreement with Ezra, ix.

When considering changes to halakha, Conservative Judaism's rabbinical authorities may rely on historical analysis as well as religious considerations.

This is a reference to the disagreement between two rabbinical schools of thought — the House of Hillel and the House of Shammai — on the proper order in which to light the Hanukkah flames.

The Beit Yosef is a huge commentary on the Tur in which Rabbi Karo traces the development of each law from the Talmud through later rabbinical literature ( examining thirty-two authorities, beginning with the Talmud and ending with the works of Rabbi Israel Isserlein ).

In Lithuania and Estonia, the Jewish masses lived mainly in densely populated towns where anti-kabbalistic ( mysticism ) rabbinical academic culture ( in the yeshivot ) flourished based on just the simple understanding getting deeper from there.

Under the rules of the Conservative movement, the adoption of multiple opinions permits individual Conservative rabbis, congregations, and rabbinical schools to select which opinion to accept, and hence to choose individually whether to maintain a traditional prohibition on homosexual conduct, or to permit gay unions and clergy.

Their details and practical application, however, is set down in the oral law ( eventually codified in the Mishnah and Talmud ) and elaborated on in the later rabbinical literature.

Later rabbinical legends made Og a survivor of the flood, suggesting the he had sat on the Ark and was fed by Noah.

His proposal included programs on dramatic and fine arts to stimulate Jewish artistic creativity, a college to train Jews to live fully in American and Jewish culture as contributing citizens, a school to train Jewish educators, and a rabbinical seminary to train creative and visionary rabbis.

" Rabbi Rothenberg also ruled that a battered wife could petition a rabbinical court to compel a husband to grant a divorce, with a monetary fine owed her on top of the regular ketubah money.

In a ruling of importance for Orthodox women's capacity for legal self-protection under Jewish law, Haredi Rabbi Benzion Wosner, writing on behalf of the Shevet Levi Beit Din ( Rabbinical court ) of Monsey, New York, identified sexual harassment cases as coming under a class of exceptions to the traditional exclusion, under which " even children or women " have not only a right but an obligation to testify, and can be relied upon by a rabbinical court as valid witnesses:

Born to a poor Jewish family in Dessau and originally destined for a rabbinical career, Mendelssohn educated himself in German thought and literature and from his writings on philosophy and religion came to be regarded as a leading cultural figure of his time by both Germans and Jews.

Modern Orthodox rabbinical students, such as those at Yeshiva University, study some elements of modern theology or philosophy, as well as the classical rabbinic works on such subjects.

Other yeshivas, such as Yeshiva Chaim Berlin ( Brooklyn, New York ) or the Mirrer Yeshiva ( in Brooklyn and Jerusalem ), do not have an official " semicha / rabbinical program " to train rabbis, but provide semicha on an " as needs " basis if and when one of their senior students is offered a rabbinical position but only with the approval of their rosh yeshivas.

* The Orthodox rabbinical establishment rejects the validity of Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist rabbis on the grounds that their movements ' teachings are in violation of traditional Jewish tenets.

The Gemara ( also transliterated Gemora or, less commonly, Gemorra ; from Aramaic גמרא gamar ; literally, " study " or " learning by tradition ") is the component of the Talmud comprising rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah.

" A recent study of this rabbinical ruling suggests that it was both " unprecedented " and possibly prompted by governmental pressure on the rabbis, as well as " brilliant " in preventing Muslim-Jewish friction on the Mount.

; July 2010: Knesset Member Danny Danon visited the Temple Mount in accordance with rabbinical views of Jewish Law on the 9th of the Hebrew Month of Av, which commemorates the destruction of both the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem.

The curriculum focused especially on Talmud, legal codes, and classical rabbinic literature, but aside from a little time for a Homiletics class, very little time was spent on practical training for serving in a rabbinical position.

Maimonides, and other rabbinical commentators, extrapolated this into the conclusion that, if they exist, then male sons and their descendants are the heirs of an individual, but if they do not it would be any daughters or their descendants, and if these do not exist then it would be the individual's father, and if he is no longer alive then the rule concerning heirs applies to him-the father's sons ( the individual's brothers ) and their descendants have priority, followed by the father's daughters ( the individual's sisters ), followed by the father's father ( the individual's grandfather ), and so on.

These rabbinical sources allege that it was on account of modesty and selflessness, and a prophetic vision of Joshua, that Jacob gave Ephraim precedence over Manasseh, the elder of the two ; in these sources Jacob is regarded as sufficiently just that God upholds the blessing in his honour, and makes Ephraim the leading tribe.